A final solution, perhaps.

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Ooooh THAT Harrison Butker!

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Should I watch clips of the Charlie Kirk funeral, or wait till Leni Riefenstahl edits it all together?

What. the. actual. fuck.

I need a substitute teacher to wheel a TV in from the hallway for the rest of 2025 please

Protesters yell at one agent with an American flag mask and sleeves “Nazi” as they push demonstrators off the sidewalk in front of the driveway. “Proud of it,” the agent replied.

The same man who was shoved above was just arrested for blocking a vehicle in the driveway. “We’ll get you next,” one agent warns other protesters as the gate closes.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

on a very special episode of mythbusters adam and jamie put this one to the test

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

[bong rip]

Glenn Jones wrote this song when he and his sisters sold their family home in New Jersey. Just a lovely tune for Sunday, or any day. youtu.be/xPStpfY-QuI?...

I never tire of reading these.

Easiest possible way to know you've done the right thing:

Sixteen years and counting of a career dedicated to being the fleeing guy in the goose meme

This is hardly the least of the problems here, but I take it that Homan currently has $50,000 in cash that belongs to American taxpayers.

Every time they do this, I think of the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch where Moore says something about how WWII required sacrifices from a lot of people, and Cook responds, "Well *I* wrote a LETTER."

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

In 1947, Station WFOR in Hattiesburg cut off an NBC broadcast on civil rights 19 minutes into the half-hour show, “Our Civil Rights—Are They in Danger?,” because it “got off on the racial question” and “both sides were not represented.”

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

Post the wins, even when they’re just California wins. I’d like to see other states do this. It’s a crime that DC can’t.

this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Breaking - Border Czar Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50K from undercover FBI agents. The Trump DOJ shut down the case: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

@anntelnaes.bsky.social was correct

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

35th Ward Alderperson Anthony Quezada just walked up to the scene and grabbed a mask.

Agents toss gas and later some flash bangs (after this recording).

America is the greatest country in the world. At what, you ask? You're under arrest

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Dudes rock

Gas canisters launched directly into crowd; pandemonium again.

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

What share of faculty during McCarthyism were adjuncts, I wonder. I feel what this is two bad effects multiplying each other: an authoritarian MAGA that is uniquely anti-speech, and an academy that has created a vast array of always-vulnerable faculty.

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

This photo. Wow. A USMC intelligence veteran, carrying a U.S. Flag through tear gas deployed by federal officers, while a sign lying in the foreground reads "Every ICE agent will be held to account."

OMG "Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages. Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three." This is what you write when a student complains to your Chair about the D- they got on their first-year English research paper.

I've taught a lot of sections of Freshman Composition and these comments are a delight to read.

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

at least twice now, this federal agent has come out of the broadview ice facility with his sidearm drawn. last friday, an ice agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop nearby in franklin park, illinois.

The Provost and President are listed as defendants in the suit. Alter is seeking compensation for the apparent violations of the U.S. and Texas constitutions, as well as his university contract. Alter is also ordering the defendants to reinstate him to his position at the university immediately.

Broadview, IL - In a very “I’m in Chicago” moment, Broadview police ask the protesters to let a vehicle pass. A guy yelled “Car!” Then went it passed “Game on!” Wayne’s World references persist, even through federal dispersal orders.